On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Igor Tandetnik <itandet...@mvps.org>wrote:
> See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuous_truth > Thanks for that - that's a new term for me. i think the relevant bit of that article in this context is: ------ Thus we say S is vacuously true; it is true, but in a way that doesn’t seem entirely free from arbitrariness. Furthermore, the fact that S is true doesn’t really provide us with any information, nor can we make useful deductions from it; it is only a choice we made about how our logical system works, and can’t represent any fact of the real world. ------ -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
